Immigration lawsuit plaintiff says work with immigrants part of faith

9:49 AM,
Aug. 8, 2011

Pamela Long, one of the plaintiffs challenging Alabama's new immigration law, a professor at Auburn Montgomery and a Hispanic minister for Episcopal churches, sits in her office at the Church of the Ascension in Montgomery.

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Pamela Long said the work she does with immigrants is an expression of her Christian faith. It's a major reason the Auburn Montgomery professor joined a lawsuit that seeks to stop the state's strict new immigration law.

"How can I stop doing service to those I'm called to serve just because a law has been written?" Long said in a recent interview. "I'm always giving unto Caesar -- abiding by all the laws of the land including taxes, buying insurance for my car, that sort of thing. But the law cannot force me to cease to be a human caring for humans."